Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1947-07-06
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, , n Tales of'Flying Saucers' Mystify Nation ~ r. "We realize," said Dr. Oliver years experience walked up the * * * Startle \Public, Lee, director of Northwestern uni- 1'amp to his plane at Bolse. jokin, versity's DE'arborn obSl'rvatory, that "I'U believe in t hese discs Iowans Spot Discs "U1al the army and navy afe when I see them," Then minutes working on all sorts or things we later he radioed, shaken, from his In Keokuk, Waterloo Bring Guesses know nothing about." plane that he had spotted five of The unnamed scil'ntist quoted them, B, THE "880CIATED .alll By THt: ASSO JATED PRESS by the Los Angeles newspaper Two persons 10 different sec- First Iowa reports oC the mYI- The nation was balfled today reportedly said the saucers "are lions of Charleston, S. C.-one of terious "fiyinl saucers" which have by "flying saucers" reported se n capable of high speeds but can them a newspaper reporter-said been reported lately from many in 28 states by hundr.eds of per be controlled from the ground. a Iiying saucer passed over other parts of western and middle- sons, and conjectures came from They are 20 feet in width in the Charleston heading east at 5:20 western United states came yes- scores of named and unnamed center and are partially rocket p.m. CST, Saturday. At about the terday from Waterloo, Keokuk and sources throughout the country. propelled on the takeoff." same time two men in AJbany, Sioux City. Official government sources The scientist's report of "trans- Ore., saw a single disc nash At Keokuk S. M. Bayloer, Wi!- took a "let's see one" stand on mutation of atomic eneregy," southward, halt, and retrace its }jam Boehl and C. F. Bowels, in- the phenomenon, and no scientist however, was scoUed at by Dr. course before vanishing into a structors at the Keokuk municipal proffered a delailed explanotion. Urey, atom scientist. "You can cloud. airport, reported they saw three But Ihe Los Angeles Evening transmute metals, not energy," he Officials of the atomic energy of the discs over the ail'pOrt. Herald and Express quoted an said, commISSIon in Washington said it They said the disc! were saucer unamed Calirornia Institule of Col. F. J. Clllrk, commanding had no experiments involving shape, bul tnat they appeared for Technology scienli t in nuclear oWcer of lhe Hanlord engineer- "flying saucers" under way, and only a few seconds 'and the siz. physics as suggesting that the ing works in the Pacific norti1- one of lhem added: "All we know was hard to judge. The three men saucers might be the result of ex west where the la.rgest SBUCPl' in- is what we read in the papers." agreed that the discs were movin, e of periments in "transmutation of Navy's "Flying Pancake." Pilot E. J. Smith Officials Assure It Is Not "Flying SnucI'J·... flux has been reported, said the Although no generaL alert had rapidly over...the airport. pad atomic energy." Dr. Harold Urey, .aucers were not coming from tile Saw "Flyin&, Sall(,l!'rs." been sent out for radar scanning J . E. Johnston of Wat.rloo said (11') WIREPHOTO :h4- atom scientist at the University atomic plant there. (iP) WIREPHOTO of the heavens, he said "reports he saw a flying disc as 1:30 yes- bout of Chicaio, called that "gibber Credence in the saucers-wide- on the interception of any suspi- tei'da,. moming. The disc, John- 1uIlN" ish." made." The undulating, flashing \ director of the University of Chi- ly laughed off at their first re- of them trained fliers, reported cious object on ground radar ston said, appeared to b. ~out 25 lem- Two Chicago astronomers said objects "couldn't be meteors," coga's Yerkes observatory at Wil- ported appearance J une 25-grew seeing them. screens will be carefully evalu- feet above the ground and it fiew the discs are probably "man- according to Dr. Girard Kiuper, !iams Bay, Wis. all hundreds of Observers, many A United Airlines pilot of 14 ated." i:Urectly over Johnston's home. ~ena -------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------~,~--------------- they In\s scl THE WEATHER TODAY they pted -lled After the rom the man promises a "fair" Sunday owaJ1 with little chonge In temperoture. The high should Established 18GB-Vol. 79, No. 242-AP News and. Wirephoto Iowa City, Iowa, Sunday, July 6, 1947 be 80 to 85 degrees. .' .. , in~ e 9f uld om eat' liscs ~ns." --~--------------------------------------~------~------------~--------------------- . re wit Lewis 'Snubs' The U.S. T~d.y- Holiday Deaths World in Action-Repair-Europe Plans ·Expect East Europe the o be was Southern (oal Nallon In Hit 366; Aulo Around Go on Without Russia To Shun Paris Parley • I., a ip of in, The News T II H • t The Globe PARIS (iP)_B~\!~~:e~~~:AJ'~~al peace have LONDONB~iP~=nL.a!~~: last nieht ous Bl THE .... "IOCIATED paU8 0 eavles B1 THB AS8DrIATBD PRESS Induced Britain and France to try now to patch rushed preparations for the July 12 con!erenc~ on Operators ont THE BODY of 19-year-old • NEW ZEALAND finance min- up Europe'.s tottered econo',T1y without Russia. the Marshall plan amid growing indications that WASHINGTON (iP) _ A 24- Richard Schweitzer Detroit fae- By TIlE ASSOCIATED PRESS The ChOIC~ was not thell' own, lit least som? of the eastern Euro- blk t k h 'd' 'n Ister Walter Nash is worried but the RussHlns', who vetoed con- pean countnes would follow Rus- ave e hour hitch in signing of a soft coal ory WOl'thel' w ose JS8 P] peara bC. At 366 had been ,",(jut the United States' over- Unentlll economic cooperation be- sla's lead and boycott the Pari. t f6l d l ea·~ p~rSQnS Russ DI"sappr.ov.:I1 peace pact for northern mines de wo mon s ago was owe y killed in holiday accidenls by Sat- wl\elmlng excess of eXllOl'ts over tl Sit . I '1 th t 11 ti into veloped last night, while southern a "ransom plot" against his wid- urday night ltS the final day o. cuuse, 1e ov e ,s salt, 1 rea - mee ng. l Imports. lie said in Wel1hl/rton cned the sovereIgnty ot small I A"d PI sity operators reported getting "a com owed mother was flmnd in a the lill'ce-day Fourth 01 July ncreases I an Up to last night 11 of the 22 o'k plete brush-off" from John L. swamp near Pontiac, Mich., yes- weekend approached. that a return to uncontrolled European stales. invited countries had either ac. tree mnJ'I(etinlr would bring re- Since the war international t d b'd t th f had Lewis. terday, Sil'lce 6 p,m. (CST) Thursday, pitlOll of economic and other in- cep e 1 s 0 e con erence or 167 persons h~d becn kl'l1ed l'n conferences have ended mostly in Chanc,.es In Senate had been represented by authori- ~ph- A UMW spokesman said the u terna tlonal troubles experienced . I Th P' t lawyers "Simply haven't got the THE DISTRICT* * ATTORNEY* 'S traffic occidenls over the nation, alter 1929. lUi ure to agree. earlS mee - tatvie sources as likely to accept. language of the agreement work office In Los Anlreles I su d 130 had been drowned, five hod ings ended in outspoken conflict, By JOUN 1\1. IIIGUTOWER The list included Italy, Portugal, ed out yet," but prophesied lhis lit t d b I Lost their lives in fil'ewol'Lcs mis- * * * with Soviet Foreign Minister V. WASHINGTON (iP) - Russia'S Greece, Turkey, Eire, BeIalum, would nol interCere with a re ::~~~ea ~cStre:se8 ~e:ada;e ~I:r~~::~ haps :lI1d 64 hud died {rom other TilE MEXICAN foreign oWI'C M, Molotov growling threatening opposition to the Marshall plan Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Ice- sumption or digging in 3,000 accident.,1 causes, repurted that all Amellcan gOv- words. ror European recclVery appears to land and The Netherlands. northcrn pits on Tuesday, when a :~~h~;~J1~\e:ss:!~~ ;:~be:Yde!~~; Califol'nia led the nation in traf- ermllcuts except Brazil bave re- Molotov's warnlny' to British have strengthened greatly the No official word had come fro", · f t I·t' 'I 9 F h plied III favorably terms to l\lex- Foreign Sccrctary Ernest Bevin prospects that congress will ap- , IO-day indu try-wide vacatlon weapon in the allelred II. btlllction rIca niles Wit 1 1. loriday od Ico's lliollosal fh n f ,,, lI;f~r_ prove the plan and appropriate Austria, Switzerland and Luxem- ends. and beathl, of Nicholas Glana- 11 . New York 11 and Michigan Amel'lcan "constitution" btl con- and French Foreign Minister tl b 11 bourg or from any of the eight n I '10 h ,eor"cs Bidautt tha! the pl'oJ'ect 1e i ions necessary to put tt II d f 1" t . f t Not so bl'lgh t was the outlook clls, restaurant supply house o\)- an d P en sy \'ama eac. shIel'cd at Ute lorthCtlllUlI" ~ .111 " re r nge co un rles 0 eas ern er~tor. Pleasont weather contributed 10 .. ml'ans division of :l<:ul'ope und over. Europe. tor southel'l1 wOI'kings. A membcr Amniran t'ongr('Sli Bogota, ld I d "t d I" Thai I' S the oPl'nlon expressed lhe hea vy toll in motor accldents at wou en 0 no goo resu Is of the Southern Coal Producers us~ * * * nnd dl'ownings, Motor fotali ti es Cohnnbla.